Today was a very relaxed day. Coming in to the meeting I had nothing big planned for the day. In the meeting, we discussed our progress with each project, something we do once a week. Mr. Callens informed us about a possible bike-ride on Thursday, where I could loan his bike (mine is in Cleveland, OH). Afterwards, I sat around waiting for Matt to come, so we could discuss the problems with the data set. However, he did not know either, and it wasn't until Ben e-mailed his colleague about the problem that we were able to identify it. The coordinates were mismatched with their data by 3 rows, accounting for the weird light curves that were put out. While waiting, I helped Alexa with her project by writing a simple program to subtract two values from another (she'd have to do this 2000 times by hand). I also made my own program more efficient and user-friendly, fixing any last bugs that I could spot. When I ran the new set of data through, minor improvements in the results were made, but still not what we were looking for. I'm waiting for Ben and his colleague to discuss this; until then, I do not have much to do. I believe these constant set-backs will just make the final product even more enjoyable; while it is frustrating, it makes the day more interesting whenever I hear the phrase "I think I've found the problem."
For lunch we met with the other interns again; while no one really talked it was something different from the quick lunches last week.
For lunch we met with the other interns again; while no one really talked it was something different from the quick lunches last week.